Contents -- Maps, Tables, and Photographs -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Names -- Abbreviations -- The Dominion and the Rising Sun -- Prologue: Raising the Flag -- 1 A Window on the Orient -- 2 From Grand Beginnings to Depression Diplomacy -- 3 Manchuria Erupts -- 4 Failure at Geneva -- 5 The Calm before the Storm -- 6 A Bitter National Spirit -- 7 A Rude Awakening -- 8 The Road to War -- 9 Pacific Promise -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.